US4631731A - Device for producing or amplifying coherent radiation - Google Patents

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US4631731A
US4631731A US06/576,974 US57697484A US4631731A US 4631731 A US4631731 A US 4631731A US 57697484 A US57697484 A US 57697484A US 4631731 A US4631731 A US 4631731A
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    • H01J—ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J1/00—Details of electrodes, of magnetic control means, of screens, or of the mounting or spacing thereof, common to two or more basic types of discharge tubes or lamps
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    • H01S—DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL
    • H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices using stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation in the infrared, visible or ultraviolet wave range
    • H01S3/09—Processes or apparatus for excitation, e.g. pumping
    • H01S3/0955—Processes or apparatus for excitation, e.g. pumping using pumping by high energy particles
    • H01S3/0959—Processes or apparatus for excitation, e.g. pumping using pumping by high energy particles by an electron beam
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NL8300631A NL8300631A (nl) 1983-02-21 1983-02-21 Inrichting voor het opwekken van coherente straling.
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US4903088A (en) * 1987-06-26 1990-02-20 U.S. Philips Corp. Semiconductor laser with large bandgap connection layer
US4894832A (en) * 1988-09-15 1990-01-16 North American Philips Corporation Wide band gap semiconductor light emitting devices
US5125000A (en) * 1990-04-25 1992-06-23 Commissariat A L'energie Atomique Compact electronic pumping-type semiconductor laser
US5373521A (en) * 1992-09-22 1994-12-13 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Blue light emitting semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same
US5513198A (en) * 1993-07-14 1996-04-30 Corning Incorporated Packaging of high power semiconductor lasers
US5629952A (en) * 1993-07-14 1997-05-13 Corning Incorporated Packaging of high power semiconductor lasers
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